New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-05
.L0TTIE REXDAL.
FROM THE YANKEE BLADE.

8 SOuLSC HOu u! 4OuI SSAStS Lluoo
have gone wool-gathering. I always
told you that | intended to wed a
man with blue eyes; and with hair
and mustache Of the celestial rosy
and you are dark. Besides, you are
twenty-six years old and O. theologi-
cal student-two things | never could
tolerate in the man I shall honorl?)
with my hand and heart
Lovely Lottie Rexdal gave a very
wicked little laugh as she pushed the
end Of her red silk parasol into the
mellow soil under the apple tree, ot the
same time glanding saucily up at her
companion, q scholarly young man.
"Why did you ask me?" she resumed.
because I wanted to be made fun
.of, to be ridiculed by the little maiden
I love SO hopeIessly," replied Vane
Winton, smiling sadly at the piquant
young lady perched on the back OF an
old rustic garden seat, her brown friz-
yes falling roguishly into her dancing
brown eyes.
"'Now that doesn't sound one bit
alike our Vane, who studies the good
book and cultivates an ice-cre
complexion, flashed Lottie, digging
vigorously with the end OF her parasol
lin the dirt.
can ice-cream compiexion?" re-
peated Vane, a little mystifed at the
'unheard-of term.
eyes, that's Lottie Rexdaps term
for, students compilations such as
yours. Vane, you are such an old
<bookworm, you shut yourself up with
your big musty volumes, until your
face is just the color of ice-cream,
and mischievous smile illumined the
pretty face.
eff you would only be grave for a.
while, Lottie, might talk to you,"
pleaded Vane.
'tYes; but just be merciful enough to
consider that there is not a thimble-
'ful Of gravity in me, Vane. When you
become regular divine I should get
you into all sorts of scrapes, and
your clerical friends would shun you
in consequence OF your display of de-
.praved judgement in the selection Of
"a WIFE"
"If | am willing to run the risk,
bo will ~
said Vane, giving the best reason his
sirritated mind affordad at that mo-
ament.
"Ah! but am not. Marry some
steady, sensible girl. Alice May will
be here. to visit your mother In an
hour. Lay aside your ex treme book
ishness, be halfway polite, and you
may captivate her. Miss May is high
.sIy cultured, not addicted to such fri.
yollties as skating Kinks, etc, as am.
She will not be less than sublime in
your eyes. And Vane-'
But Vane Winton did not wait to
hear more. He walked of, leaving
Lottie Rexdal laughing merrily-
Lottie was the ward OF Vane Win
tons kind old father.
She had been left an orphan at q
very early age. A maiden aunt had
chen taken care of her. When shew
but ten her relative died. Before her
death the maiden aunt sent for Mr.
Winton, her girlhood's lover, and Sc
cured his promise to care for the or
phan girl. Mr.. Winton had brought
Hottie to her present home, and the
kind old folks had always petted and
humored her beyon measure.
Vane was the only child OF wealthy
parents. When Lottie had come to
live with them he was in Europe fin
fishing his education. When he return
ed three years later he found his ward
sister, as he had named her in his
letters, away at some school for girls.
Itso happened that Vane and Lot
tie had never met until the latter was
seventeen, Vane having been travel
ing in various parts Of the United
States during Lottie's vacations.
Vane Winton was q fine scholar,
but had never studied any profession.
Now, at the age OF twenty-six, realiz-
ing, perhaps, that life of idleness
would never suit him, he was study
ing for the ministry.
Vane found ~ almost Impossible
.some days to devote his mind to the
ology amidst the tempest which the
little whirlwind, Lettie Rexdal, stirred
up. She threw open the unused piano
ana made the room re-echo with
,her clear. bell-like notes. She filled
,the library with flowers and monde:
script specimens which she had found
lin the woods or on the mountains
near. She tossed up Vane's bigbooks
lin q dreadful manner, " and even
scrubbed on one Of his embryo ser
mons. She rode every horse on the
place, romped with Prince, the great
shaggy Newfoundl land, toreher dresses
shockingly went bare headed until she
mas; brown ass = chestnut, aud turned